National Affairs: The Great Commission

The eleven eminent citizens whom President
Hoover has constituted a commission to inquire into the law-breaking
habits of their fellows, and into the nature of the laws which they
break, and into the causes and circumstances of the breakage, headed
last week for Washington to receive their instructions. George Woodward Wickersham, chairman, supped and slept at the White House,
planning in advance with the President.

The commissioners had every
reason to expect that their instructions would be broad, penetrating,
exhaustive. President Hoover is...